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Over the past day, we’ve seen a flurry of stories on the Department of Justice’s position on the AT&T/Time Warner cable merger, which was first announced back in October 2016. This story has been bouncing back and forth a fair bit–here’s what we know thus far.

The Supreme Court has announced it will hear a pivotal case that could vastly expand the power of the US Department of Justice to seize data from computers in other countries, even when that data concerns foreign nationals.

The Department of Justice is under fire for extremely broad warrant conditions and an unprecedented push on gathering citizen information when investigating smartphones that may have been used for criminal activity.

Microsoft filed suit today against the Department of Justice over the latter’s use of gag orders and surveillance demands. The company asked the District Court to declare a key piece of surveillance legislation unconstitutional on the grounds that it infringed on the First and Fourth Amendments.

The battle between the FBI and Apple has thus far been portrayed as corporation vs. government. Corporations are made up of people, however, and at least some Apple engineers have stated they’d sooner quit the company than unlock iOS in the manner the government is demanding.

Time warner and Comcast are expected to call off their merger after failing to reach a deal with government regulators and the Department of Justice. The formal announcement could come as early as tomorrow.

For the past five years, Microsoft has been forced to offer first-time Windows users in Europe a choice of web browser. This was a result of an EU ruling in 2009, which found that Microsoft had been unfairly abusing its operating system monopoly to push Internet Explorer into the hands of millions of unwitting, unfortunate users. Now, however, Microsoft is once again free to make Internet Explorer the default web browser in Windows.

The United States Department of Justice arrested the owner of MegaUpload and six other individuals affiliated with the company today. The individuals are charged with racketeering and criminal conspiracy. Anonymous has retaliated in a misplaced decision to blame the action on the recent debate about SOPA and PIPA in the US Congress.

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